" Jose Tomas de Cuellar, author of The Magic Lantern: Having a Ball and Christmas Eve (Library of Latin America) "Manuel Payno's Los Bandidos de Rio Frio [is] the only Mexican novel of the nineteenth-century to approach an adequate and ...

This project thus focuses on four writers from Latin America, widely considered among the most influential of their generations---Jorge Franco of Colombia, Chilean-born Alberto Fuguet, Dominican-American Junot Diaz, and the formerly exiled ...

In this revised 2nd edition, Dr. Flor María Rodríguez-Arenas establishes Miguel Riofrío's race and birth date, through presenting the facsimile of his Certificate of Baptism, thus correcting the information that has circulated in Ecuador since the 19th century. The text of the novel is offered in a complete form, as the author published it. In...

Translator's. Preface. The year is 1890, in the busy port of Veracruz. A small boy,
stationed high in a palm tree, searches the horizon for the smoke of a coal
burning steamer. This special ship left the Spanish port of Barcelona some two
weeks ...

More from the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco: The Cassini spacecraft has discovered a mysterious object near the edge of Saturn's A Ring. The anomaly, nicknamed "Peggy," appears to be interacting with the ring material.

What happens in your car no longer stays in your car. The Zubie Key tracks your driving history and can also alert you to car problems. Its reports are very useful, but devices like this also spell the end of driving as a symbol of freedom or escape.